The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-03
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pelts it can in the West.
THERE are fifty-two newspapers pub
lished in Des Moines, Ia.
FLAvIus JosEpuUs has been appointed Il
postmastership in Maine.
ONE county in Missouri produced t5O, ,OOO
worth OF castor oil last year.
AN 1celander is in Washington Territory
looking for place to locate colony.
SHOES made of rice straw are worn by the
laboring people in the south of China.
GAS and coal have been discovered in
good quantities near Ossawotamie, Kan.
THE remains of Baltimore editor were
sold for ten dollars to medical college.
The city council Of st. Louis has fixed
eight hours as legal work day for city
laborers.
A FIRM Of erfume-manufacturers are
about to establish vast flower plantation
in Florida.
APnYsrcrAN says: 'If child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil it," This is too
severe on the child.
ASPHALT has been discovered in Morgan
County, Ala. 1t is the only known deposit
In the United States.
Mrs. MARGARET j. PRESTON, the WELL
known Southern writer, is threatened
with total blindness.
The Great Eastern, which cost at her
sompletion in 1859, - ,OOO, 600, has beer sold
at auction for Sl3O,0OO.
IT is generally conceded that if France
and Germany fight, Russia will walk of
with good slice Of pie.
THE average age of those who enter col.
iege in this country is seventeen. A cen.
tury ago it was fourteen.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL is advocating the
emigration Of unmarried women from
England to the British colonies.
The rolling mills throughout Western
pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio are crowd
ed with orders for several weeks.
THE Colorado supreme court has decided
that women can not act as nOtaries public
in that State under existing laws.
HERR Mosr's fine of $1,000 has been paid
and it is expected that he will be released
from the penitentiary on the 2Sth of March.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is Of the opinion that
we should first obtain guns, and then the
matter Of Notifications might be consid-
cred.
MAJOR BEN: PERLEY PooRE tells "Gath'
that every President who called an extra
session Of Congress failed to get renomi-
mated.
THE indications are that the railroads
will soon be tumbling over one another in
their eagerness to bounce the deadly stove
from their cars.
IT is stated that the Car of Russia ne.
cretly visited Paris and had an interview
with President Grevy, recently. He trav-
eled in disguise.
SERGEANT SMITH, of Richmond, Va, has
been fined $50 for permitting more persons
to witness the execution Of Cluverius
than allowed by law.
ST. PAUL and Minneapolis are fighting
Tor the State Capital. The latter city in
tends Offering site and building costinl
$2,OOO,OOO to the State free.
GOVERNOR DAVIS, the new Senator-elect
from Minnesota, is much younger man
than Ben Butler, but almost his exact
counterpart in appearance.
PROF. ALEXANDER declares that he has
sounded the extinct crater near the leper
settlement at Molokai and line $500 feet
long remained taut and failed to reach the
bottom.
A GIRL has just been arrested in New
York for stealing the watch and jewelry of
friend, and the fact was that she had
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The abolition Of the free pass system by
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grandson Of the great nuIliter b.s Tho sao'
ond largest cotton field in the IIni,ad
States. He was a Cantain in the ConfsS.
crate service at eighteen and ia now fortv-
one.
Mr.. CHAs GALLOWAY, of Winchester, Va.
was so overcome by the receipt of a tele.